Protext

Protext is the name of several software applications:

Protext (Arnor)

Protext is a British word processing program, developed by Arnor Ltd, of Peterborough in the decade following 1985. Originally written for the Amstrad CPC464, it was later sold for the Amstrad PCW series of word processors, for MS-DOS based PCs, the Atari ST, and the Commodore Amiga. A version was developed for the Acorn Archimedes and released in October 1990 which ran in full screen text mode, an accompanying note in the box mentioned Arnor's intention to develop a future release that would support operation in the RISC OS desktop with drag and drop capabilities, etc. but this was never developed.

In 1991 Arnor were commissioned by Amstrad to develop a special version of Protext for the NC100 portable computer. This was included in the ROM on the NC100 and NC200. Translated versions of Protext were published in German, French and Swedish. The German version was known as Prowort due to a name conflict.

After the closure of Arnor in 1995, the program was taken over by a group of enthusiasts including the original authors: Mark Tilley and Gavin Every; and relaunched with a new version for the PC. A companion database program Prodata was also sold. Since December 2008, Protext together with manuals and technical information has been freely downloadable, in formats for PC, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

ProTEXT

ProTEXT is the trade name for a transcript condensing and indexing software used by legal professionals to save paper when printing legal transcripts. Originally created in 1994 by Val Patterson, it featured a graphical user interface that allowed the user to view the finished condensed print on screen before printing.

A Court Reporter (for example) can make an ASCII file from court proceedings or depositions, then use the ASCII file in ProTEXT to print anywhere from 1 to 256 pages per sheet of paper. This saves a lot of paper when printing court documents.

The earliest version of this program (1991) was named 'Court Reporter Pro' and worked only with Microsoft MS-DOS. After Windows 3.1 was released, the program was updated to a Windows version that allowed many more features.

The programs ProEDIT and ProDEX are associated programs also produced by ETS Inc. (Electronic Transcript Software)

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